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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 2h

🍂 🏛️ US House Speaker Mike Johnson Delays Swearing In New Member of the US House of Representatives, Adelita Grijalva (AZ)

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 6h

@repstansbury.bsky.social posted this video with Adelita Grijalva on other platforms. The situation is abnormal swear her in!

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20h

NEW: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes threatens legal action if Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in Adelita Grijalva. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Arizona attorney general threatens legal action against Mike Johnson for failing to seat Adelita Grijalva

The Democrat accused Johnson of playing “political games” by delaying the swearing-in ceremony.

www.politico.com

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Manuel Thery @manuelthery.bsky.social · 6h

Tomorrow at @ISTAresearch.bsky.social in Vienna at 4:30 PM I will show and discuss how shapes can emerge (and disappear) from mixture of microtubules and molecular motors.
#morphogenesis

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Jessica Briggs @jessikator.bsky.social · 1d

I want the Democrats to stand up to this administration and support the shutdown. But I am still devastated that my study section may not meet on Oct 29th. Already it's been so challenging to have no mechanism to submit grants with our foreign collaborators. Now this. Delays upon delays upon delays.

BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 1d

Just here to remind everyone that while the federal government is shutdown, all study sections at the NIH are currently on hold. Another blow to science and to early career scientists like myself with young labs and research groups. Very hard to remain positive about this career path.

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Manuel Thery @manuelthery.bsky.social · 1d

We hire!
The CytoMorpho Lab is looking for an engineer with a background in cell and molecular biology to join our team in Paris. This is a 18-month contract position, but we're open to exploring long-term opportunities.
More details here:
cytomorpholab.com/index.php/jo...

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 21h

🍃 🌳 🧪 Superwood Made from Natural Wood

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 1d

💥🍃 Portland, OR - Emergency Naked Bike Ride
Peaceful Protest

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Portland cyclists strip down in pouring rain to protest ICE facility and Trump troop deployment

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/10/naked-bike-riders-cycle-through-the-rain-in-a-day-of-portland-protests.html

kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 1d

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

💉Reminder! Don't forget to get your yearly Flu and COVID vaccine. Cases of both will start increasing soon 📈

Check with your medical providers, local pharmacies, and/or local health departments for COVID vaccine availability.

#wildtomild

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 1d

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Wout Oosterheert @woutoosterheert.bsky.social · 2d

Very excited that my final postdoctoral work is now online in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Using 16 (!) cryo-EM structures, we uncovered how the three proteins coronin, cofilin and AIP1 work together to rapidly disassemble actin filaments.

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 1d

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

NIH Study Sections are on hold...again. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/n...

NIH Study Sections are on hold…again.

The primary input to deciding on the merit of proposals submitted to the NIH for potential funding, as most of my remaining blog audience well knows, is the outcome of the initial peer-review proce…

drugmonkey.wordpress.com

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 1d

CDC is still able to track some health issues and state health agencies are still operating

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 2d

🍂 🦠 🧪 Measles Outbreak in South Carolina

US now has confirmed 1,563 cases of measles this year

NPR @npr.org · 2d

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number. n.pr/4obbfnK

U.S. measles cases continue to climb, with outbreaks across the country

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.

n.pr

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 4d

🧪I’m just gonna put this right here.

Also circumcision isn’t linked to autism.

Via Nisha Patel on IG

Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM...
@DrPlantel
Tell me you don't understand science, pregnancy, or literally anything about women's health... without telling me.
RFK Jr: "A fetus is inside the placenta."
Sir, the placenta is an organ that supports the fetus, not a freaking Airbnb that it lives inside of. Someone please take away his microphone before he starts explaining where babies come from

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 2d

🧪 Some history:

Relentless activism in the dim and distant 80s brought us developments of HIV treatments such as antiretroviral therapy i.e. Descovy.

This is a brilliant example of why we need in-your-face activism now, more than ever.

#StandUpforScience
#CDC
#NIH
#FDA
#Science

Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 3d

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 2d

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY

TODAY
We celebrate and honor the first people of North America
Their history, culture, and resilience
Trump cannot sweep history away
Honor and Respect

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

Find a rally. Show up.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 3d

Next Saturday's anti-Trump 'No Kings' protest is expected to be the largest single demonstration in U.S. history.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 3d

Hard to know if they intended to fire these folks and then “taco-ed” or if they just truly have no idea what they are doing.

Maybe both?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 2d

Agree, the strategy is to obfuscate.

Fire too many, then reinstate a select few, leaving the impression that the problem was solved.

But none of the problems since Jan have been solved - especially *THE PROBLEM* of a lawless White House.

Nothing is fixed until we rein in a lawless President.

Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 3d

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 3d

🍃 💥 🧪 Origami in Nature

Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · 3d

Animal origami: The physics of nature’s folds
🧪 #Scicomm #Nature
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Animal origami: The physics of nature’s folds

Insects that tuck away wings; a protist with an accordion-like neck — studying these clever creases may inspire foldable structures for drones

knowablemagazine.org

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 3d

🍃 🦠 🧪 NOTE: "President Trump also received ... annual influenza and updated COVID-19 booster vaccinations"

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

Reminder: Trump vaccinates himself 👇🏽

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 3d

🍂 🏛️ 👿 🧪 Dismantling of the CDC by RFK Jr

More than 1000 scientists, doctors and public health officials were laid off late Friday night "wiping out entire offices and teams that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses, collect data, publish scientific reports"

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 3d

'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 4d

This is terrible. A brief statement from us:

Congress must stop it. We call for a provision in any CR/budget bill that explicitly declares these Vought shutdown firings to be illegal, null, and void.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 3d

🍂 🏛️ 🧪 Friday Night Layoffs at Federal Agencies

"Reductions in force (RIF) notices began pouring into inboxes across the US federal government, disproportionately at the CDC ... these RIFs are illegal"

Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 3d

“The Death of Public Health”

Jonas Salk saved millions with a polio vaccine. He gave it away to help humanity. Today, venal and yes, evil billionaires—Koch to Musk to Peter Thiel—are fully behind destroying American society for profit. They want you poor, sick, and desperate. We must stop them.

The Death of Public Health

Another Friday night massacre, but this time it's not just an essential federal public health agency that will die

rasmussenretorts.substack.com

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 3d

🍂 🧪 Reversals of Some CDC Layoffs

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

TRUMP CDC REVERSAL: Trump administration racing to reverse some CDC layoffs. Disease detectives, measles responders, MMWR staff RIF’s are revoked. DC office still shuttered. w/ @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 3d

🍂 🧪 NEW Layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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